Quotes About Journey

What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

I've returned to my

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

too late, so Ostin came with us. As we were leaving the hotel

Richard Paul Evans

Life's book is written on the heart.

Relax, c'est la partie la plus fastoche de l'aventure.

That's the way we live our lives. We speed on, happily or not, in the same direction until we collide into something that alters our destination. Sometimes that collision hurts, sometimes it doesn't, but if we're lucky, love is that unbalanced force. Love. There is no greater force in the universe. Now if we'll only learn to stop getting out of its way.

Richard Paul Evans

If love is our reason, we may veer off course sometimes, but we'll never be lost

Richard Paul Evans

The most important story we will ever write in our life is our own -- not with ink, but with our daily choices.

Every story is a road. And on all roads there are potholes and bumps, detours and unexpected encounters.

Prologue When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

How did I come to such a dark place? I don't know where my road now leads but I fear the shadowlands that lie ahead. But it is not the darkness of the path I fear. Just the loneliness of the trail.

When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing I've discovered that there are times when a story, like architecture, is carefully designed, erected, and furnished. Then there are tales that take their own way, and I find myself being dragged along after them like a white-knuckled water skier behind a speedboat.

should not surprise us that, at the end of a journey, our destination looks different than we imagined at the beginning. Everything looks different up close.

It's amazing to me to see how so unexpectedly life can switch tracks to a new destination.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own—not with ink, but with our daily choices.

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.

and sometimes we have to take it on faith that we are actually making progress, getting closer to our destination. Faith. Four months

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

I read because one life isn't enough.